First Time Reaction to Israel IZ Kamakawiwoʻole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Very Emotional 

I lived on Oahu for 3 years and I loved the island life. Israel was a beautiful soul and I know he will never be forgotten.

this sounds like something a person that isnt from hawaii would say

@@spinnygiraffetoe : Just had to pee in the pool, didn't you ?!

@@jimbayler4277 that’s the world we live in now just gotta ignore idiots like that🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@@spinnygiraffetoe maybe to you haole

Thank you for your service, I hope it helped you.

Thank you for your service brother 🙏🏾🙏🏾

First of all thank you for your service and secondly I hope that IZ Turned out to be good medicine for you.

Stack another "Thank You for your service", on top of the others you well deserve.

Thank you for your service and just thank you period. Hope you're doing well brotha

it's OK , we'll keep the stew hot................

You know what they can hear in line waiting outside the pearly gates.

May he have fair winds and following seas RIP Brother

that's the way islander's do it💓💪

From Madame Pele, we came, and to her, we will one day return.

Thats WILD....

wow

100% agree. I tear up when his voice kicks in almost instantly.

I know the feeling

Monsters by James blunt. Grab your tissues.

@@Dovahstorm i’ve listen to that song and it makes you cry because of the difficult subject matter but IZ Sings this song and his voice, his body is his instrument and the simplest of string instruments the ukulele. He sings a song of hope and beauty and that is a universal desire just out of the reach like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

I also am a 38 year old, 6ft 2, 280lb man with tattoos that also loves motorcycles and strip clubs that cries when I first heard this and still does cry sometimes when I listen to it now. So I'm happy to hear of another man similar to me that it happens too also lol. I've always been fascinated with the samoan culture and people because every person I've ever met and or heard of and seen from the islands are always so peaceful and happy and all are all about family. They all are so genuine and close. I admire the hell out of them and their culture and honestly a bit jealous sometimes lol. Visiting the islands one day is def something that's high on my bucket list of things I want to experience before I die.

yes yes yes

We played this song at my sons funeral. It makes me cry doubly so

@@adamskeans2515 omg damn.. may him RIP.. he is always with u... god bless u

It's his song

@@FastGunner2040No it isn’t it’s a cover the original was sung by Judy Garland and written by Yip Harburg.

This is so awesome, along with the Eva Cassidy acoustic version

I never cry but damn do I wanna

Thank you !!! Aloha ... beautiful soul 💓

Sadly you might be surprised how his legacy is being held basically Hostage.

@@PapaBear816 : Oh ?! Tell us more.

He's not dead he's just over the rainbow watching over us all.

So A friend of mine and I travel to the island of Kawaii to get away from our marriage troubles in 1997. I remember hearing IZ’s songs on the radio and had never heard him before or his band and I’m thinking to myself this Music captures Hawaii just perfectly. I had never seen a picture of him nor did I understand his struggles. I just loved his voice. A couple of days later I’m listening to a transistor radio at the base Kahili Mountain to KONG Radio and they announced his passing. I think they said he just got too big. That day I went to a music store and bought a cassette with a Good selection of his stuff and when I got back to Portland I stuck it in the player in my car and I don’t think it left there for four years because my small son and I loved listening to him so much! Lately, I’ve been grooving on Elvis in the famous aloha from Hawaii concert from 1973 and one of my favorite songs from the concert is I’ll remember you. In the last few days I stumbled on a RU-vid video of IZ and his band singing the same song In Harmonies so beautiful, and dare I say the equivalent of Presley’s! Wow!

Saints aren't lost, but called home.

@@d-rockpain4250 gave me a whole new perspective on passing on bro thank you

We were best friends and would sit on the beaches on the West and North Shore parts of the island and in the cave in Makua Valley playing music just for the pure joy of it. Imagine having your guitar under a full moon at Waimea and listening to his voice as it heads out into the sea. Those are the memories I am Blessed to have. His first recording of this song is on his first solo CD called Ka'anoi. I happened to have come home for a family reunion while they were mastering it. He asked for my impression and I replied "who's that?". He said, lovingly, "what's your problem?" I replied that it lacked the love, heart, soul, and purity of the man I know and love. It was commercially excellent which was obviously the point to putting out a CD. But I wasn't listening to my Bruddah, I was listening to an excellent singer. I passed him an uke and said "sing me the song". The room went silent and eyes started to water from those that heard this man's heart for the first time. When he was done with the song he asked "how do I think it would do on the market?". I replied that if he shared the heart in his music the way he shared it with me that it would touch the hearts of people the way he touched mine every time we jammed. A week later I returned to California and he calls. He said "wacha doin" I said talking to you". He said I just recorded this (the one you mentioned) and put the phone by the speaker. Then he got back on the phone and lovingly said "you happy now?" I replied "that man I know". I told him that the world would come to love his music. The soul you hear in this version is the soul that exists in this man that I called my Bruddah.

I feel the same way every time I hear george strait i cross my heart after my mom passed 17 years ago

omg... god bless u guys

Auto tune ruins it all

E ala e is a good one too. Moon kaukahi is my uncle. Been around them all.

This isn't the mashup tho

Eva Cassidy.....emotional

@@williamsimmons152 nah, this is better

@@theeggbreadguy3799 I didn’t offer an opinion on which one was better. I did say in a new comment, that becoming famous for singing this song has some tragic endings. ( to wit: Judy Garland, Eva Cassidy and IZ )

I guess I'm not

Hawaiian music transports me to another place, it’s hypnotizing.

Unfortunately, native Hawaiians are losing their homes because the wealthy class is buying all the home and pricing them out of reach for normal Hawaiians. Mark Zuckerberg owns the most land in Hawaii now. I just hope the Hawaiian people can remain on the island and their culture lives on. It's sad to see some are forced to move else where.

@@walden6272 It's the politicians selling out the natives. They can easily restrict sales.

Why u had to say his big broken body smh

Tf you mean broken body. Smfh

@@caydenrgarrett His body overtaxed his heart and lungs .... He died too young, at 38 yr, from respiratory and heart failure. weren't you aware of that?

@@tadpethtel8035 No Ted Pethtel

@@caydenrgarrett what is meant by misspelling my name...?? a passive aggressive insult??? ;-)

Also in 50 Blind Dates and the credits of Finding Forester.

Oh I love that movie ! I have seen it a lot but can’t remember the song being there wow

@@mikeamrose Fifty First Dates (Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore) but only because that is the first time I heard this version

@@GitanaAdelle it's at the end of the movie when she wakes up inside the boat and when she comes outside, she meets her daughter again for the first time... =D

Mine was 50 first dates

Ah I’m so sorry 💓

Perfectly Put William!

😢🫂

this played at my newborn cousins funeral...it is so hard to hear now

I met Iz's cousin in Pahoa a few years ago. We started talking and it turns out Iz's cousin was born in my hometown in Texas. His dad was was an electrician, and spent a few years working there.

Congratulations

@@Mark_MOORE_VFL .....thanks for having me. You all seem like a happy and genuine family. Awesome. 😎

New meat Gitanos! Welcome brother or sister! You'll never be sorry!

@@patrickpost4294 💯

I too suggested Eva. So tragic. Largely unknown in the states outside of the Washington DC area where she lived. So glad the UK DJ got her some well deserved recognition

@@jeffreyjameson5510 Jeffrey - thanks for the comment - always happy to run into someone who knows about Eva. I confess I did not know about her until 3 years ago, but it was immediate love after hearing Rainbow. Cheers.

@@judleym5877 I discovered her even more recently after listening to Angelina Jordan sing Rainbow. Eva’s was a suggested video. I’m going to have to search that BBC documentary. The band members also released a documentary about the weekend they recorded all the songs at Blues Alley for her CD. Sadly Rainbow didn’t make the cut. But lives on thanks to her Manager

@@jeffreyjameson5510 Saw the band member one last week, and the other one is called Eva Cassidy Timeless Voice, I think. There is also a short Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) commentary about Eva. I’m an old man, so when I lived in the area and went to Blues Alley, it was many years before Eva. Take care.

@@judleym5877 you too. Have you listened to any of Angelina’s music? Older gentlemen like us seem to be drawn to her.

Nuff tears redeh

Yes, that’s the version I like best.

Yes I love that version as well!

He moves seamlessly to and from what a wonderful world

💙💙